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1. Lisa Demo
   
2. [Film footage of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition]
   
3. Marlon Riggs Interview : Signifying Meets the Media
   
4. Go Western Pacific to San Francisco
   
5. Cesar Chavez interview
   
6. Long Beach Earthquake: March 10, 1933
   
7. Mary Pickering Barker oral history
   
8. Helen Pepperdine's home movie
   
9. Palomar Archives
   
10. Firing Line with William F. Buckley: The Practical Limits of Liberalism
    

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Cesar Chavez interview
Description: An interview with Cesar Chavez at the United Farm Workers (UFW) headquarters in Keene, California.Source: 1 reel of 1: 16mm camera original reversal filmNote: Includes B-roll. First three minutes and last thirteen minutes are silent.Collection: Department of Employment and the...

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49 itemsWelcome to California Light and Sound

Historical moving images and audio from the California Audiovisual Preservation Project

In partnership with eighteen libraries, archives and museums listed below, the California Preservation Program is undertaking a two-year (October 2010-September 2012) project to provide digitization and access services for historic California audiovisual recordings to serve as a prototype for an ongoing program. This database provides "glimpses and whispers" of our state's rich audiovisual heritage- there is much more to be mined and discovered. We must save our audiovisual heritage before it is too late; analog recordings are threatened by fragile physical condition, format obsolescence and the lack of playback equipment.

The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley
California College of the Arts Libraries
California Historical Society
California Institute of Technology Archives
California State Archives
California State Railroad Museum Library
Graduate Theological Union Library and Archives
Hoover Institution Archives, Stanford University
The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley
Media Resources Center, University of California, Berkeley
Ontario City Library, Robert E. Ellingwood Model Colony History Room
Other Minds Archive
Pepperdine University Special Collections and University Archives
Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley
Stanford University, Manuscripts Division and University Archives
University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
University of California, San Francisco Library, Archives & Special Collections
University of California, Santa Barbara, Davidson Library, Department of Special Collections


The Project gathers best archival practices for moving image and sound preservation and establishes low-cost, practical, standards to help collecting organizations move from the analog age to the digital age. Storage of files for preservation and access are provided by the Internet Archive and the Online Archive of California for teaching, research and study.

Funding was received from the California State Library and the Moving Image Archiving and Preservation Program at New York University. For additional information about the California Audiovisual Preservation Project, please visit the California Preservation Program.

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